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HOWL Art by Micklangelo

21 March, 2013
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Micklangelo,  a visual creator and conceptual thinker, is  fascinated with how the 1960s revolution of thought and sensibility continues. He describes Allen Ginsberg’s HOWL as one of the “genetic markers” in the development of modern culture and notes that while expressing his own personal turmoil within the rigid moral confines of 1950’s America, Ginsberg touched…

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Big Sur the Movie

13 January, 2013
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I still haven’t seen On the Road yet. It has had a limited airing and hasn’t come near where I live. I’m a bit more excited about Big Sur coming…

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Free Flip-Page Online Free Reading of Infernal Drums

13 January, 2013
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Free books–a chapter at a time is Moon Willow Press’s new tool that allows you to freely read our books online, right here, right now–one chapter each week. We’ll even…

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Talking News with Carolyn Cassady

28 December, 2012
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The Readex Blog recently re-republished an interview with the “matriarch of the Beat Generation,” Carolyn Cassady. Cassady is nearing 90 but still hot. Sixty years after publication of Jack Kerouac’s…

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Neal Cassady, The Denver Years

17 December, 2012
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This is a kickstarter project by Heather Dalton: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nealcassady/neal-cassady-the-denver-years-0 This project is a documentary based on the autobiographical accounts of Neal Cassady and his troubled youth in Denver.  

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Kerouac “Wood Cutting Fool”

30 November, 2012
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Here’s an interesting blog sent in by Loren Kantor, who is passionate for woodcutting and writing. He has done a carving of Jack Kerouac! His woodcut prints and portraits are…

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